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WRITTEN FINDINGS of the DRAFT WASHINGTON STATE NOXIOUS WEED CONTROL BOARD Proposed Noxious Weed for 2016 WRITTEN FINDINGS OF THE DRAFT WASHINGTON STATE NOXIOUS WEED CONTROL BOARD Proposed noxious weed for 2016 Scientific Name: Crataegus monogyna Jacq. Synonyms: Crataegus granatensis Boiss.; Crataegus oxyacantha var. praecox hort.ex Loudon; Crataegus apiifolia Med.; Crataegus curvisepala auct. Non Lindm.; Crataegus dissecta Bork.; Crataegus oxyacantha auct.non L.; Crataegus oxyacantha L. var. monogyna (Jacq.) Wahlenb.; Mespilus monogyna (Jacq.) All.; Oxyacantha apiifolia (Med.) Roem. Common Name: English hawthorn, common hawthorn, red hawthorn, one-seed hawthorn; Neapolitan medlar; whitethorn Family: Rosaceae Legal Status: proposed Class C noxious weed Images: left, Crataegus monogyna in flower, image by Robert Vidéki, Doronicum Kft., Bugwood.org; center, lobed leaf with toothed edges; right, branches with leaves and mature fruit, center and right images by Robert Vidéki, Doronicum Kft., Bugwood.org. Description and Variation: Overall habit: Crataegus monogyna is a long-lived, deciduous, small tree to large shrub. Its branches have sharp thorns and the leaves are deeply lobed. White flowers, which can have a pink tint, bloom in May and develop red fruits in the fall. Crataegus monogyna has no notable fall color like some eastern North American species (Jacobson 2008). Roots: Crataegus monogyna has deep and spreading roots, its crown and upper roots are able to sucker when trees are injured (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Stems: Crataegus monogyna grows as a large shrub to small tree, 6.6 to 32.8 feet (2 to 10m) tall (Phipps 1998). Generally, plants have a single trunk (Phipps 1998). The bark on older stems is plated while the younger stems have smooth, often reddish bark (Phipps 1998). The twigs are glabrous or hairy and often thorn-tipped; thorns are straight, 0.4 to 1.0 inches (1 to 2.5 cm) long and at least some of them indeterminate, growing out into lateral twigs (DiTomaso and Healy 2007, Phipps 1998). Leaves: Leaves are deciduous, alternately arranged and closely clustered on short shoots that are 1.2 to 2.0 inches (3 to 5 cm) long (Phipps 2013). Leaf petioles are 0.4 to 1.6 inches (1 to 4 cm) long (Phipps 1998). Stipules are 1 to 16 mm long, hairy or glabrous, and have margins that are toothed or Image: Crataegus monogyna smooth (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Leaves are variable in shape and are stem in winter showing mostly ovate (egg-shaped) to triangular in outline (DiTomaso and Healy thorn-tipped branches, 2007). Pinnately-lobed with 3 to 7 deep, sharp, lobes, leaves are 0.4 to 2.6 image by Ben Legler, 2006. inches (1 to 6.5 cm) long and wide, leathery in texture, and are glabrous or hairy (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Leaf edges are toothed, mainly near lobe tips (Phipps 1998). Leaf veins extend to the sinuses (of the lobes) (Phipps 1998). The leaves that are on the short shoots where flowers occur are typically smaller than leaves on the longer, vegetative stems (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Flowers: The inflorescence is a dense, flat-topped cluster (panicle) on a short, leafy shoot (Phipps 2013, DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Each inflorescence has 10 to 20 flowers on glabrous to pubescent pedicels (Phipps 1998). Flowers are 0.51 to 0.63 inches (13 to 16 mm) in diameter and have a glabrous to tomentose hypanthium (Phipps 1998). Flowers have 5 sepals that are triangular with smooth margins and 5 white petals that age to pinkish (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Each flower has 5 to 25 stamens with pink-purple anthers, an inferior ovary, and 1 style (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Images: left, Crataegus monogyna flower clusters in bloom, image by Robert Vidéki, Doronicum Kft., Bugwood.org; right, close-up of blooming flowers with pink-purple anthers, image by Sander van der Wel, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Image: left, Crataegus monogyna mature fruit clusters, image by Ben Legler, 2006; right, nutlet (pyrene) of C. monogyna, image by Steve Hurst, hosted by the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database. Fruit: The fruit is a drupe-like pome, elliptic to spherical in shape, 0.24 to 0.47 inches (6 to 12 mm) long by 0.20 to 0.39 inches (5 to 10 mm) in diameter (Phipps 2013, DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Fruits are bright to deep red and have persistent reflexed sepals on their tips (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). A distinctive feature for this species is the 1 nutlet (sometimes 2) that is typically found in each fruit. The brown nutlet is a stony layer (endocarp) encapsulating one seed each, typically 0.16 to 0.35 inches (4 to 9 mm) long (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). Similar species: The native black hawthorn (Douglas’s hawthorn), Crataegus douglasii, is in the same genus but has characteristics to distinguish it from Crataegus monogyna. Crataegus douglasii, which occurs all over Washington, has weakly lobed leaves (not prominently lobed), flowers with 5 styles (not 1 style), and blackish fruits (not bright red). Images: left maturing and mature fruit of Crataegus douglasii, image by Ben Legler 2004; right, Crataegus monogyna 'Crimson Cloud', example of another cultivar of C. monogyna, image by Famartin Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license Crataegus monogyna and Crataegus douglasii are able to hybridize, which was first documented in western Oregon by Love and Feigen (1978). Hybridizing populations tend to have characteristics that are similar to or are intermediate between the parent plants including purple-black fruit, flowers with 2 to 3 styles, and a wide range of leaf blade shapes (Love and Feigen 1978). A few cultivars have been available in the trade besides the species, but generally their growth forms or flower colors distinguish it from the species. These cultivars include Crataegus monogyna ‘Flexulosa’ (syn. ‘Tortuosa’), cultivar of C. monogyna that has twisted, corkscrew branches and white flowers; and Crataegus monogyna ‘Stricta’ a form that has upright growth, a narrow habit, and is without thorns (Oregon State University n.d.). Habitat: Crataegus monogyna grows in full sun but can also tolerate shade. It grows in lowland areas on many soil types, growing best in moist soil or in areas that receive over 60 cm of precipitation (DiTomaso and Healy 2007, GOERT 2002). Established trees are able to survive moderate drought conditions (DiTomaso and Healy 2007). It grows in a variety of habitats including disturbed areas, gardens, forest and woodland understories, riparian areas, grassland, abandoned fields, pastures, oak woodlands, forest clearings and edges (DiTomaso and Healy 2007, Sigg and Alverson 2000). Geographic Distribution: According to the USDA GRIN database, (USDA ARS 2015), Crataegus monogyna is native to parts of Asia, Europe, and northern Africa specifically: • Northern Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia • Asia: Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Georgia, Russian Federation (Ciscaucasia) • Europe: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, France, Portugal, Spain Currently, USDA GRIN database (USDA ARS 2015) lists Crataegus monogyna naturalized in: • Africa: South Africa • Australia • New Zealand • North America: western North America Crataegus monogyna was introduced here in the 1800s as a garden ornamental (Sigg and Alverson 2000). In the Pacific Northwest, it is commonly found west of the Cascade Mountains in Washington and Oregon, less commonly in southeastern Washington, and scattered locations in other parts of the U.S. with wider distribution in eastern North America (WTU 2015). In Oregon, it is an invader on prairies and deciduous woodlands in the Willamette Valley, known there for over 100 years (Sigg and Alverson 2000). It also may have been introduced and survived as root stock for scion types that died (Oregon State University n.d.). Map: County presence/absence map of Crataegus monogyna in the United States, map by EDDMapS 2015. Listings: Crataegus monogyna is listed as ‘limited’ by the California Invasive Plant Council and is not listed as a noxious weed in any state (National Plant Board 2015). Washington: The first Crataegus monogyna herbarium specimen in Washington is from Wahkiakum County, along roadsides by the Alochaman River in 1927 (WS 69043) (WTU 2015). Other early herbarium records in Washington State include a collection in Spokane County on gravelly soil in 1932 (WTU 23057), a collection from Thurston County in 1936 (WTU 82120), a collection from Clallam County on Tivoli Island in 1951 (PSM03421), a collection from San Juan County on San Juan Island in 1975 (WTU 263251), a collection from King County in 1975 (WTU 328460), a collection from Chelan County on a gravelly flat in 1977 (WWB 20238), a collection from King County in 1977 (WTU 381721) in 1981 (SRP 14545), a collection from Snohomish County in 1986 where it was suspected of horse toxicity (WS 301166), and a collection from Benton County in 1991 (WS 316745). There are collections from eastern and western Washington but there is a larger number of collections from western Washington (Consortium of PNW Herbaria 2015). So far as it has been recorded, the largest Crataegus monogyna, measuring 69 feet in 2005, is planted in Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington (Jacobson 2008). San Juan Noxious Weed Control Board (2015) reports that in San Juan County, Crataegus monogyna infests large areas of prime agricultural land on the major islands, and is especially problematic on the south side of San Juan Island. There, local farmers and ranchers have been asking to have this species listed since the inception of the county’s noxious weed control program in 1996. Maps: WTU map of counties with orange circles indicating collections of Crataegus monogyna (Consortium of PNW Herbaria 2015). Growth and Development: Crataegus monogyna grows from seed, germinating in the spring, and has rapid development its first 15 years (GOERT 2012).
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